The Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis is comprised of outstanding faculty and graduate students conducting meaningful work across Biological Anthropology, Sociocultural anthropology, and Archaeological fields. Click the images below to hear more about ongoing projects.
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Rebecca Lester, a sociocultural anthropologist and social worker, is interested in how individuals experience existential distress, and how this distress manifests as psychiatric symptoms, religious angst, somatic pain, and other culturally inform
John Bowen, a sociocultural anthropologist, focuses his research on Islam across the world and follows the evolution of acceptable foods among Muslims.
Glenn Stone, an environmental anthropologist, studies the issues of the day concerning food and agriculture with a special interest in genetically modified crops.
Geoff Childs, a sociocultural anthropologist, studies in Nubri, Nepal using anthropological demography to ask- what happens to a community when the majority of young people move out for education?
T.R. Kidder leads a team at Tashbulak to explore the site as a physical entity, as well as the way the environment influenced human beings and how human beings might have altered the environment.
T.R. Kidder, an archaeologist, takes us through history to help us understand our likely climate future. Kidder investigates how humans change their world, sometimes subtly and sometimes dramatically.
Michael Frachetti, an archaeologist, leads a multidisciplinary team excavating Tashbulak, a lost city high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.
T.R. Kidder, an archaeologist, examines a collection of large mounds built by hunters and gatherers over three thousand years ago in Louisiana.
Shanti Parikh, a sociocultural and medical anthropologist, presents her research as love letters, intervention and HIV in Uganda.
Crickette Sanz, a biological anthropologist, and David Morgan, a research associate, study chimpanzees in the Goualougo Triangle.
Bret Gustafson, a sociocultural anthropologist, talks about studying abroad and the significance of language study for his students and in his own research.
Peter Benson, a sociocultural anthropologist, discusses the changing tobacco industry and how it is starting to mirror big pharmaceuticals in its marketing and tactics.
Bret Gustafson, a sociocultural anthropologist, examines resources, language, and land in Latin America with a focus on indiginous populations in Bolivia.
David Freidel, an archaeologist, was part of a team that discovered the tomb of Lady K'abel, a seventh-century Maya Holy Snake Lord considered one of great queens of Classic Maya civilization.
Professor T.R. Kidder may have found the field of anthropology through family influence, but finding a love for discovering connections to past civilizations is truly his own.
Shanti Parikh, a sociocultural anthropologist, discusses her research focusing on structures of inequality surrounding issues of sexuality, particularly gender, sexual and reproductive health, regulation, and courtship, romance and marriage.
Pete Benson, a sociocultural anthropologist, gives a brief overview of the development of the contemporary pharmaceutical industry in the US.